Description: Aeschylus : The Suppliants, Hardcover by Aeschylus; Burian, P. (TRN), ISBN 0691635927, ISBN-13 9780691635927, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning. In his translation of this ancient Greek drama, Peter Burian introduces a new generation of readers to a powerful work of Aeschylus' later years. He conveys the strength and daring of Aeschylus' language in the idiom of our own time, while respecting what is essentially classical in this dramatist's art: the rigor of the formal constraint with which he compresses high emotion to the bursting point. The Suppliants, which is the first and only surviving part of a trilogy, does not conform to our expectations of Greek drama in that it has neither hero, nor downfall, nor tragic conclusion. Instead the play portrays unresolved conflicts of sexuality, love, and emotional maturity. These distinctly modern themes come alive in a translation that re-creates the psychological immediacy as well as the dramatic tension of this ancient work. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Book Title: Aeschylus : The Suppliants
Number of Pages: 90 Pages
Publication Name: Aeschylus : the Suppliants
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 0.4 in
Subject: Theater / History & Criticism
Item Weight: 1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Aeschylus
Subject Area: Performing Arts
Series: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
